Re: A yacc/bison that outputs elisp?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Is that possible? Anyone had the same thoughts? I think it would be
>> very very useful for an editor to have such syntax-specific parsing
>> ability.

> There's a package out there that does just that (IIRC it uses bison and
> post-processes the C output to turn it in to elisp).
> Can't remember the name, tho,

It's called "scanner.el" and written by John Wiegley (famous for several
other Emacs packages).

Look for it on gnu.emacs.sources,


        Stefan